Word: parlays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three Faces of Eve (20th Century-Fox) is based on the study, made by two University of Georgia psychiatrists, of a three-way split personality (TIME, Feb. 18). Unfortunately, the performers of such parts have about as much chance of making a score as a three-horse parlay. And the moviegoer is apt to find himself, long before the picture is over, feeling like an inmate, and watching narrowly for a chance to escape...
...nourishes about a dozen other oddsmaking establishments. Some beef up their income by peddling parlay cards (insidious lists of the week's games with which small handbooks tempt small bettors); some even book bets on the sly. None are as large, or as furiously legitimate, as the Clearing House...
Analyst or parlay-card player, bettor or bookie, all these men are really matching their wits with such oddsmakers as Leo Hirschfield. To hear Hirschfield tell it he and his handicappers are simply exercising their skill at prediction. Last week, sportsman that he is, he even quoted a price on the election: Eisenhower at 3½ to 1. "Lucky I'm not a betting man," said he. "Because, frankly. I want the Democrats to win. But what are you gong to do? That's the odds...
Last week the sharpshooting young (40) governor found he had fallen wide of the mark. In a hotly contested primary election, the "many" dumped Fred Hall from the copper-domed State Capitol, sidetracked his frank hopes to parlay Kansas popularity into an eventual trip to Washington...
...American farmer, as canny a speculator as ever cashed a three-horse parlay, hemmed and hawed about the new soil-bank program served up by Congress in late May, consulted his form charts and then made his decision: a heavy bet on the soil bank to win. Last week, the deadline for the 1956 signup past, the Agriculture Department reported that nearly 500,000 farmers had agreed to take 10,720,749 acres out of production, would thereby reap a cash harvest of $225 million in Government payments come fall. The 1956 bank balance more than satisfied Agriculture Secretary Ezra...